Canadian 'Slang'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few more that are apparently Canadianisms

donair
pablum
pencil crayons
hooped
freezies
homo milk

Canadian married to an American, and I don't think I'll every forget the expression on my husbands face when I asked him to pick up some homo milk at the store. Having a hydro bill and a water bill amuses him along with hydro poles. Asking for just a regular coffee at Timmies did not go well, especially when he said they screwed up his order as there is cream and sugar in it. Ended in a lesson in Canadian coffee lingo:

plain old coffee with nothing in it - a black coffee
one cream and one sugar - a regular coffee
two cream and two sugar - double double

The coffee definitely gets confusing! We had American visitors and they thought homo milk was just a colloquial nickname. Showed them at the grocery store that it is the official name on the packaging. Homo milk in bags! It is a whole new world up here!

Here is a link to a current grocery flyer at one of our grocery stores. https://www.nofrills.ca/Food/Dairy-and-Eggs/Milk-%26-Cream/2%25-%26-Whole-Milk/Homo-Milk/p/20305664_EA

Some of us just call that whole milk, and not all Canadians get milk in bags, either. I'm in Saskatchewan, 3.25% milk is whole milk and we don't get it in bags.

[Anonymous]

Cultus= worthless
Skookum=big, strong, powerful
Packs= snow boots with removable felt liners

I knew all the others but didn't see these listed. Maybe they're local to BC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently watched a video on Canadian slang. I am Canadian and I really think most of these words are broadly used and not just Canadian and not even really slang but I am curious to see how many you know right off the bat without looking any of them up?

hoser
clicks
two four
give'r
toque / tuque
mickey
dart
gitch
gong show
out for a rip
kerfuffle
double double
pop
back bacon
loonies / twoonies
chesterfield
rink rat
chirping

Why?

[Anonymous]

Cdn MIL coming to visit soon. She makes life hell. I liked Canada in the past, but hate it now. And all things Canadian. Especially my MIL and FIL. Close the border please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cdn MIL coming to visit soon. She makes life hell. I liked Canada in the past, but hate it now. And all things Canadian. Especially my MIL and FIL. Close the border please.

Hey, if it wasn't for her your DH wouldn't exist, eh?!

[Anonymous]

I have to ask-how does the milk in bags work? How do you pour it and how does it not spill all over the fridge?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I have to ask-how does the milk in bags work? How do you pour it and how does it not spill all over the fridge?

The bag goes into a plastic milk pitcher. And then you get hollered at by your father for year for not cutting the bag open properly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I have to ask-how does the milk in bags work? How do you pour it and how does it not spill all over the fridge?

We have many milk pitchers that the bags fit into and you can buy little cutters to open milk bags everywhere although lots of people just use scissors. You only cut one corner off (or the two top corners for some people). Everyone has a certain way they like their milk bags cut! You get three bags of milk in a bigger bag.

Most people just use cheap plastic milk jugs but you can also buy metal ones and fancier ones too.

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[Anonymous]

Homo milk = homogenized milk?

[Anonymous]

I know
Kerfuffle
Pop
(Don’t use either)
Back bacon (had some last weekend)

— From the South

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cdn MIL coming to visit soon. She makes life hell. I liked Canada in the past, but hate it now. And all things Canadian. Especially my MIL and FIL. Close the border please.

Tell us how you REALLY feel

[Anonymous]

Garburator - Had no idea this wasn’t a word (garbage disposal) until I moved to the US

The bin - trash

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cdn MIL coming to visit soon. She makes life hell. I liked Canada in the past, but hate it now. And all things Canadian. Especially my MIL and FIL. Close the border please.

Tell us how you REALLY feel

You must be pretty bad for a Canadian not pro like you. Unless they’re from Alberta or Quebec and then it’s their fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:gitch = undies

Canadian, here. I know all of them, and I grew up in Montreal.

Isn’t it gotchies? For undies?

- Canadian

[Anonymous]

Pylon!!!!! Americans call them orange cones?!!!